I’m seventeen and I’m lying in the back of Jake’s car. Vaughn is in the passenger seat. I am thinking about how I’ll never be as young as I am right now. It’s kind of cold in here and it’s almost been an hour since we dropped you off. I just got three texts but I’m ignoring them until I’m done writing this. There is something you should know, Mimi. I know you know but I need to tell you again. I am so glad I know you, that I have the privilege of being your best friend. Thanking you for the cigarettes, the card rides, these matching yin yang bracelets, the years we have known each other and never being able to hug you until last July. Thank you for the tears, the laughs, the equally similar thoughts we share. But most of all, thank you for shaping me, Mimi, because if I had never met you then I would have never been able to feel as human as I do now. But never have I been a blue calm sea, I have always been a storm. See you soon.